In this recording, Joe tells the story of the death of Cathal Buí Mac Giolla Gunna, and of how the song An Buinneán Buí came to be composed.

The poet Cathal Búi Mac Giolla Gunna (c. 1680–1756), an habitual drunkard, was near death. The local parish priest heard a knock at the door, where he found a woman and a boy telling him to go to Cathal’s house. When he got there, he told Cathal about the message he had had from him; but Cathal said he had sent to messenger to the priest, he didn’t know anybody to send. When the priest described the messengers, the woman and the little boy, Cathal understood that it was the Blessed Virgin and Jesus who had appeared to the priest.